Mushrooms Minsk

1-½ oz Dry or 10 oz Fresh Oyster mushrooms
½ cups Water, Plus 1 cup cold water for dry mushrooms
¼ tsb baking soda
¼ cup Vinegar
¼ tsp Salt
1 cup Chopped onions
1 small Eggplant, sliced
1 Tbs Butter
2 Tbs Flour
¼ Yellow bell (sweet) pepper ¼ Red bell (sweet)
pepper
¼ Green bell (sweet) pepper 1 cup Sour cream
Soak dry mushrooms in water, allow 1 hour
before cooking. After the dry mushrooms have soaked
10 minutes or immediately after washing the fresh
mushrooms, cut off all stems, and chop them very
fine. Place the stems in a small pan, add ¼ cup water
and baking soda, cover and simmer. Cut the peppers
into strips. Sauté the onions and eggplant, add salt,
mushrooms and stems, including all liquid (much
should have been absorbed). Continue heating, sift
flour in slowly, while stirring. As soon as the liquid is
smooth and thickened, add sour cream. Garnish with
peppers. Serves 6.
Variation: cooked carrots may be substituted for
some of the peppers.